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Monday, 4 August 2014

Review - Wherever You Will Go (Try Again #1) - Stephanie Smith

I was exceedingly lucky to read this quite early on, and then again
yesterday, and it was just as good if not better the second time. Wherever
you will go, had the most perfect mix of incredible writing with real
characters and crazy emotions all thrown in to an awesome story. Yes,
that sounded odd but I felt like I went through so many emotions when
reading this book, that anything I say is going to be all indecipherable
mumbles. :-/Brooke and Nate are one of those perfect couples.
Gorgeous and crazy in love, untouchable. Until the worst thing ever
happens to them. Brooke is left alone to pick up the pieces and try to
restart her life, alone.Saxon is Nate's best friend and works for
the business Nate created. He is very good at his job, successful,
loaded and focused. He is also gorgeous and a ladies man, yet that may
start to change. After losing his best friend, Saxon throws himself into
work, yet can't stop hurting thinking about his best friends wife
Brooke, and how she is coping.So begins a friendship, where both of
them grieve together and help each other to get past what happened.
Brooke wants to step in to Nate's very successful business and try to
keep it running. It's all she has left of him and she wants to try and
keep it. Yet she needs the help of Saxon, he single handed lay runs the
business now and Brooke is convinced he will want to move on. From
here on, we see Brooke learning to live her life without Nate and move
on after everything that has happened. She is good with the business,
and it gives her something to focus on. Saxon is always there helping
Brooke through the learning process, and it seems them having each other
is helping them to deal with it all. Through this friendship, they
become quite attached to each other. Saxon shows himself to be very
loyal and supportive, yet we start to see another side come through. A
more protective and alpha side. Which I have to say, is super sexy. :) Both
Saxon and Brooke deal with the ups and downs of all that is happening
with the business and work colleagues, plus the changing and developing
feelings between them. All this while trying to move on, after the one
man in both of their lives that meant everything is no longer around.I
loved how I went from trying to sniff discreetly through parts, to
laughing and then getting hot and bothered through others. It was a
crazy emotional whirlwind, but in the best possible sense. I loved all
the characters, they always stood out as genuine and not fake. Brooke
was gorgeous yet didn't brag about it and Saxon was almost predatory but
didn't care what people thought of him. Even the other characters were a
perfect mix of funny and genuine. I'm looking forward to the next book
in the series when we get to follow Harper, the bubbly presence within
the office and a friend to Brooke. I definitely recommend this book,
it will have you bawling then laughing then burning up, to start the
process all over again afterwards.

**I was kindly given an ARC of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review**